Chapter 2

I do not own Lion King or any of its characters.

The only characters I do own are as follows:

Kali : Fierce

Usafi: Purity

Maji: Water

Nurisha: Shine Light Upon

Hafsa: Sound Judgment

Ufisa: Mischief

The following characters belong to my friend Nala-Nay who gave me permission to use him:

Hiassen

Cire

Play Time

Meanwhile the cubs at Pride Rock's base began playing a lot more roughly and loudly. Babu began tickling his sister and Hafsa had started to wrestle with Cire. All the while, Maji who was sitting next to his cousin Kopa, was clawing at the ground in irritation.

Kopa noticed his cousin's annoyance and nudged him with his paw. "Hey Maji. What's up?"

Maji turned to look at him and snorted. "Oh nothing is wrong, Kopa. Nothing except a bunch of cubs playing around."

Kopa raised his eyebrow in confusion. "Why's that bad? Isn't that what we do everyday?"

"Because Kopa, we're the heirs and just got the right to go out in the Pride Lands. We're only cubs once! I wanna go now!" Maji said while he began stomping his paw.

Unfortunately for his mother, her tail is within striking distance. Usafi who once again had to turn to look down at her young son. "Maji." She smirked seeing him flinch as he turned around to face her. "Ouch! What did I ever do to you? " She says with a raised eyebrow that sends shivers down his spine that leads him to whine. "Do you want to go back in the den, little mister?"

Maji shuffled his paws nervously and failed to maintain an Angel smile and instead felt his heart race a bit. "Sorry Mom. I'm just really wanting to go into the Pride Lands." His look or nervousness changed to a mischievous glint in his eyes followed by a roguish grin as he thought of his plans for today. "I wanna do so much that I could eat a whole buffalo when I got back!" He said bouncing with a grin, this time being careful of his mother's tail.

"You'll have to go through me and my cubs to get the buffalo Maji." Said Kula with a laugh as she walked over to nuzzle her cubs. Maji gave her a challenging look saying they would see later.

"Be patient son. You'll go soon." His father, King Kali said with a smile as he walked down Pride Rock to join his family.

"Dad!" Forgetting his impatience, the young Prince trotted happily over to his father rubbing against his legs with a smile. "I missed you."

Kali chuckled. "But I was just by the tree over their with the other grown ups."

"Really? I didn't see you. Plus you were gone for so long."

"It was only since a tenth of the sunrise, son." Since becoming King, Kali had decided to create a way for the cubs to know when they came home. In order to do this, he had the lions and lionesses in the Pride take turns roaring after the sun reached a certain point in the sky.

"But Dad! In cub time it felt like forever since I've seen you. Heck, my mane grew since you were gone. Look see." He pointed to the top of his head where the little tuft of white fur had indeed become a bit longer. Maybe a few extra hairs Kali thought with a chuckle.

"I can see that son. You'll have a fine mane when you're King son." He patted his son's head eliciting a laugh from him and yet Kali was troubled inside. At least I hope you will. He thought. Since his reign began with Simba, he hadn't felt needed and wondered if he would one day be asked to step down and thus deny his son's birthright.. Something Kali would not allow even though he always suspected Simba was the proper ruler.

Maji grinned at his father as Kopa came up to Kali with an identical grin. "Hey Uncle Kali."

"Hey Kopa. You excited today?"

"Yeah I am. Maji and I have a lot of ideas once we get out there." Kopa looked Maji dead in the eye and in unison the two cubs gave each other identical grins so wide they could scare even Rafiki.

"Don't get into too much trouble you two." Kali said nuzzling the cubs until Simba and Nala walked down and Kopa ran to greet them.

Kali stood up and walked to his daughters from where Nuri was watching Hafsa and Cire try to outwit each other in Pinned Ya. "Girls." Kali's little interference was enough for Cire to gain victory.

Cire cackled."Got ya Hafsa!"

Hafsa grumbled and shoved Cire off. She quickly got to her paws and then shot her father a devilish glare as he licked her head.

"Why the dirty look?" Kali asks with a grin.

"You made me lose, Daddy!" Hafsa pouts.

"Oh come on sis. It's not Daddy's fault." Nurisha says giggling while she rubbed against her father's warm mane.

Hafsa grumbled to herself not agreeing with her sister but nonetheless joined her in snuggling with their father.

Kali smiled looking at his two daughters nuzzling him. "Now remember you and your friends can go anywhere in the Pride Lands," Kali chuckled as he saw all the cubs bounce on their paws at hearing his words. "But only if you stay with Timon and Pumbaa." Kali and all the adults howled with laughter seeing and hearing the cubs whine and stomp their paws when they heard they had cub sitters. "Or some adult from the pride" He finished

"Come on King Kali. We don't need to be watched!" young Kimba pouted. "We are twice your cubs age."

"Yes you do son. For one reason and one reason only." Tojo said with a smirk.

"What's that Daddy?" Uhuru asked her father curiously.

All the adults locked eyes with each other, getting the same know it all smirk as Tojo before looking at the cubs and saying in unison. "Because you're our cubs."

The cubs once again whined in unison before Kimba spoke up again. "Can we at least have Zazu instead?" Oh I can't wait to see this response.

Zazu who looked delighted hearing Kimba want him as the watcher was about to except he was silenced by the cry of the other cubs. "NO!"

Kimba whined to them, his green eyes begging them. Despite his size being taller than the others, he wasn't as tough "Awe come on guys why not?"

Kopa stood up and got in the older cub's face. "Well for one we don't need a babysitter. We're supposed to have fun, which includes not be told what not to do." He said poking Kimba in the chest like he had been sleeping in Zazu's nest.

Maji joined his cousin and glared at Kimba. "And Zazu is awful."

Kali frowned at his son and nephew and looked to his brother and the two Queens who sighed. He stepped up with Nala at his side and they glared down at the two Princes. "Now boys you both know you can't go off alone. So why fight it?"

Maji got in his aunt's face and glared back only to back down a bit as she narrowed her eyes. "Because you promised we could go into the Pride Lands today to have fun."

Nala nodded not lessening her glare. "Yes we did and we haven't broken our promise."

"But Mom, Zazu's lame. He would make us so bored when we want to have fun. I mean we tried to play hide and seek once and he would always ruin my hiding spots." Kopa shook his head hoping he could remove that memory by doing so but failed.

"Then you can go with Timon and Pumbaa." Simba suggested looking down at Kopa.

"But Uncle Simba..." Maji quickly backed off when the scarlet maned lion shot him a threatening glare worse than his father's. Worse than any cub's father had given them. He crouched low to the ground in slight fear.

Kali, noticing his son's fear glared at Simba. "Cool it Simba."

Simba, realizing that he was also scaring Kopa who hid behind Usafi's leg whimpering. Seeing that, Simba took a deep breath and looked down at his nephew apologetically. "Sorry Maji."

Maji walked fearfully towards him but rubbed against his leg. "It's ok Uncle. I was being rude and I interrupted you." As Maji rubbed against him, Simba grimaced inwardly but struggled to hide his lack of comfort by biting his tongue. It was somewhat easier seeing the white mane on his head, reminding him it was just Kali's son, his nephew.

Nala seeing her mate's nervousness towards Maji on his face, she quickly spoke up. "Now cubs, get going or you'll never get to have fun." As the cubs looked over to the Pride Lands with smiles, she leaned over to her mate's ear and whispered. "Simba calm down. It's their day." Her mate nodded with a sigh.

"They could get themselves killed. Why don't they get that?" He responds only to receive a glare from Nala.

"Scar is gone and so are the hyenas. They're safe."

"Ok they can go."

Nala smirks. "Thought you would see things my way."

Boga who had remained quiet next to her mother finally spoke up. "The others and I don't mind Pumbaa watching us with Timon."

Everyone looks at the cub in shock which Cire smirked and looked at them all. "It's better if we get them cause then we can eat on the go." All the cubs got identical evil grins as wide as the crescent moon at the thought of eating those two.

Simba rolled his eyes. "You know you can't eat them. Now no more stalling. Time to get going." He commanded.

Kopa gave his father's well-knownSimba smirk back at him combined with Nala's aqua glare and challenged. "And what if we want to stay for a bit longer?"

Simba went to respond but Kali tapped his shoulder and with a shake of his head saying no. Kali began crouching down and shot his playful star white glare at his nephew. "You don't want to challenge me Kopa. Go on and play."

Kopa gave a smirk and he decided to plant his rump on the ground. "I'm rather comfy here for now Uncle."

"Even if you're in danger?"

Kopa with a raise of an eyebrow which was replaced by an evil chuckle as his friends came and began huddling around him. "Oh what you gonna do Uncle?"

"Oh I don't know..." Kali maintained his smirk looking at his paw.

"You got nothing old Man." Cire challenged only for Kali to continue crouching into a pouncing position with an even wider smirk which made the cubs eyes widen. "No it can't be..."

"Here comes the Tickle Monster!" He says with a cackle which made the cubs scatter.

"NO! HELP HE'S GOING TO TICKLE US!" The cubs cry as they went to find Timon and Pumbaa to escape.

Kali began to laugh along with his friends. "Works like a charm. The Tickle Monster does everything from scaring cubs off to make them go to sleep in their dens." He chuckles remembering the few times he had done so with his own cubs.

Simba laughed as well until he composed himself and looked at the males. "Now that they're gone, let's divvy up for the patrol. Chumvi, you take the west border. Malka, you have the Eastern border. Tojo, you can take the south and I'll take the North." He says receiving nods all around and soon starts to leave until Kali began clearing his throat. "yes brother?"

"As co-King, I should patrol as well, Simba." Kali pointed out.

Simba gazes up at the sun, deep in thought. "Yeah that's right. Hmmmm. How bout you patrol the plains?"

Kali groaned inwardly but nodded. He had done nothing but patrol the plains which never had any problems other than disputes between the herds. He was happy to help the kingdom but was annoyed his brother still did not want him to patrol the borders for rogues. Did his brother not trust him? he often wondered. This thought in his mind now he followed the males to patrol despite being given a cubby assignment.

Usafi nuzzled her mate as he walked by knowing he felt that he wanted to prove he was an amazing ruler. She watched him leave and then turned with her fellow Queen and sister to lead the hunt.

Far from Pride Rock, the cubs were lapping up some water from the waterhole as they waited for their sitters to catch up.

Kopa groaned seeing them still in the distance. "We're gonna have to go back by the time they get here."

Hafsa snorted. "Some adventure."

Nurisha whined as she too watched. "I'm bored. I wanna play now."

All the other cubs voiced their own complaints aside from Boga's glee at being able to eat Timon or Pumbaa. However, one cub had his same grin on his face. A grin that was noticed by another.

"How can you be grinning Maji? There's nothing fun to do." Kopa sighs.

"You know me Kopa and the many reasons why I grin." Maji said with a chuckle.

Hafsa perks her ears and her face lit up. "Are you serious Maji?"

"Yep!" Nurisha caught on as well and bounced with her sister. All the other cubs looked at the black prince in confusion. "I have a plan."

AN: Hi again. It's me Tron the author of this series. In the last story, I did poetic messages in Swahili and am currently doing poetry or deep statements in my crossover story so in this story, like last chapter there will instead be outtakes of my own design and ideas. Please, if you wish to suggest an outtake you want to see, simply ask in a review.

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Kali stepped out into the starlit plains of the Pride Lands. "Ah so beautiful."

Usafi came out from the den and smiled. "Hey Kali. My you're looking great. Especially that mane of yours." She said with awe seeing his white mane shining in the moonlight.

"Why thanks gorgeous." Kali said purring and shaking his large mane in the wind.

Usafi walked up and purred nuzzling against it. "It's so smooth. So bright it's like you're the moon yourself."

"I'll say." A voice said coming towards them from the plains. They turned and saw Nala who had a large grin on her face. "Queens above Kali you look so sexy!"

"Why Nala, do I sense a longing from you?" Kali asked with a grin.

"Yes. A longing to know why your fur looks so great tonight. I want Simba to look at me like I am at you."

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"L'Oreal Moonstone? Sounds rough." Nala snorted.

Kali rolled his eyes but kept his sly smile. "It's a rough cream you run along your fur slowly and when you're done your fur becomes so smooth and so light you look like part of the moon at night and reflect her beauty." Kali said proudly as the moon shined down on him and both lionesses swooned over the sight of his bright fur covering his heavily muscled body.

Nala smiled slyly running her tail under his chin. "You know, Simba left to negotiate and won't be back for a few days." She said seductively.

Usafi licked Kali's cheek. "And we both need attention she purred rubbing against his mane almost slipping into Nala cause it was so smooth.

Kali smirked and pulled both females into his chest who purred at the feeling. "Well ok."

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